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Saving the Humboldt Penguin in Central Chile

Mon, 16/11/2015

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World’s biggest seabird tracking database shows...

Tue, 27/10/2015

At the World Seabird Conference BirdLife celebrate the Global Seabird Tracking Database helping to conserve some of the planet’s most emblematic birds and reaching 5 million data points. Many insights from some of the most traveled species on our planet. .

Worldwide South Africa

Penguin parade at risk

Mon, 02/09/2013

Australia's famous penguin parades on Philip and French Islands - which are nationally significant shorebird feeding and roosting sites - face the growing risk of a devastating oil spill, if Victoria’s controversial Western Port development is approved, new research shows. “Oil and birds don’t mix,” said BirdLife Australia’s Shorebirds Program Manager Dr Golo Maurer.

Pacific Australia

Celebrate World Penguin Day -and the world...

Thu, 25/04/2013

BirdLife International and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research have joined the British Antarctic Survey to compile a “tracking database” on six penguin species. The project is funded by the UK Government’s Darwin Initiative.

Worldwide

Gentoo Penguins will benefit from this new Marine Protected Area (Paddy Gallagher; flickr.com)

Massive Marine Protected Area announced in the...

Thu, 18/04/2013

An enormous Marine Protected Area, one of the largest in the world, has been declared in South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory, the Prince Edward Islands.

Africa

Foiling climate change

Sun, 01/04/2012

After seeding the sea with iron filings to create a carbon sink, and giant mirrors which reflect the sun’s heat back into space, comes a new geo-engineering solution which aims to maintain penguin breeding colonies in the Antarctic at their optimum temperature.

Worldwide

Oil Spill update from New Zealand

Mon, 19/12/2011

The last two months of 2011 brought some good news for Forest & Bird (BirdLife in New Zealand) in the wake of the country’s worst ever maritime environmental disaster in October.

Pacific New Zealand